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The main character in the story "The Day the Dancers Came" is an old man who lives in a run-down apartment with an old, cynical friend in New York City.
Aug 12, 2024 · In You Lovely People and The Day the Dancers Came, he had written of Filipino exiles abroad—Ambo, Fil, Celestino Fabia, and a host of other characters estranged from the country of their birth ...
Summary. Alipio Palma, the protagonist in this story, is a Pinoy, an old-timer, as the Filipinos in the United States have been called. One summer day, when Palma looks through the window curtain ...
Santos, Bienvenido N. (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism) Introduction. Principal Works. Criticism. Death in Life in Santos's Villa Magdalena. The Midwestern Fiction of Bienvenido N. Santos ...
The "scent of apples" in Bienvenido Santos's story symbolizes nostalgia and longing for home. This is evident as the fragrance evokes memories and a sense of homesickness for both Fabia and the ...
The next day, Desi and Harlan came to talk to Thena, after which Thena took the narrator, Hiram, out into the fields. The white people wanted Hiram to leave the fields; Thena reminds him that they ...
Book II, Chapters 14-15 Summary. Jake is drunk and retires to his room where he reads until the dizziness subsides. He hears the footsteps of Brett and Robert approaching, then separating into ...
In Santos’s story ‘‘The Day the Dancers Came,’’ which is published in Scent of Apples, a Filipino immigrant becomes an American citizen in 1945 and joins the workforce. This is his ...
Sep 16, 2024 · The following day, Raoul tells his brother, Philippe, about his plan to elope with Christine, but Philippe disapproves. The next night, during a performance, the lights suddenly go out at the opera.
Sep 6, 2023 · Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, often known simply as N. V. M., was an internationally famed Filipino teacher and writer of novels, short stories, and essays. During his long and distinguished ...
